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MS untraced; text is taken from Robert Galloway Kirkpatrick, ‘The Letters of Robert Southey to Mary Barker From 1800 to 1826’ (unpublished PhD, Harvard, 1967), pp. 272–275.. Previously published: John Wood Warter (ed.), Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856), II, pp. 58–60.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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How many letters I have had to write since my return home you must well know, & having heard of our safe
arrival you will hardly have expected to hear immediately from me sooner. I am at this moment in the most utter confusion, – the
most comfortless might have been added, if it were not an ungrateful word to employ upon a glad occasion. Here are all my books
arrived, & in Toms phrase kicking-to-Windward; floor tables & chairs covered
with them, some on the landing place, some on the stairs, – just as they were last year.
Obras
del
Venerable
Padre
Maestro
Fr Luis Granada
& the volumes connected with chain work, but the gold-leaf is exhausted & two links are yet wanting to the
chain. You will be very much pleased with their appearance. I have two things to beg, intreat & desire, – first that you would
be pleased to send me in a frank as much gold leaf as a frank will carry, – & secondly that you will be pleased to come after
it yourself as soon as may be, to Juniperize
I was greatly in hopes that Sir Edward would have been
persuaded to take time by the forelock, & not let another summer pass away without seeing the Land of Lakes. (Be pleased to
observe that this is the appellation which old Llywarc Hen gives it, who was himself a Cumbrian prince).
My stock of marbled papers is tolerably good, but I failed sadly in the gilt ones, – nothing could I find like John
Wesley’s suit of sable & gold,
I am much indebted to Sir Edward about Plott’s
Staffordshire.
You will not be displeased to hear that Landor’s offer to print
all the poems I would write has stung me to the very core; – & that I am learning to go through the whole Thalaban